Why Sensor Variable Font?
This project presents a model that sets the groundwork for establishing a significant relationship between variable fonts and its application in graphical interfaces from data collected by different sensors.
Installation tutorial
The following apps are needed to create an interactive prototype that relates variable fonts to Arduino sensors in a web environment. For Mac and Windows users: Visit https://code.visualstudio.com/download download and install your Os version. Visit https://www.arduino.cc/en/software download and install your Os version. Visit https://nodejs.org/es/download/ download and install your Os version. During Windows installation the app […]
Sensor Variable Font publication
Recently, a chapter on the Sensor Variable Font project was published in the book Perspectives on Design and Digital Communication: Research, innovations and best practices published by Springer. You can access it in https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-49647-0_5. Abstract Cities are rapidly developing into so-called Smart Cities, where the Internet of Things (IoT) and the hyper connectivity of citizens […]
Variable font reacts to music
Within the framework of the subject Tipogafría y edición experimental that I lecture at the Escuela Superior de Diseño de Madrid, one of the students has developed the project named Typotone. Taking into account that Typography is undoubtedly the most specific component of Graphic Design, the subject is oriented to develop a typographic project focus […]
Sensor Variable Font Workshop – Escuela Superior de Diseño de Madrid
In the framework of the subject “Tipografía Experimental” lectured at Escuela Superior de Diseño de Madrid, I developed with my colleague Lourdes Marco a workshop to introduce to the students the possibilities of building semantic graphic interfaces through variable fonts and data collected by sensors. Moreover, we conducted a validation of the model in order […]
Sensor Variable Font Workshop – Politécnico do Porto
In the framework of an Erasmus Mobility Agreement with the Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design (ESMAD) of the Politécnico do Porto, I carried out with my colleague Lourdes Marco a workshop with students of the School of Design. The purpose was to introduce them the possibilities of building semantic graphic interfaces through variable […]
Significant Function – random expression
In order to show different possibilities of the Significant Function, I prototyped a more joyful application of the model. In this case the scenario is a shop with a variable identity. Each time a customer is detected by presence sensor the logotype will variate. For this purpose I designed a specific variable font with Glyphs […]
DIGICOM Conference
On the occasion of the third edition of DIGICOM, an International Conference on Design and Digital Communication, organized by the Design School of the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, I presented along my college Lourdes Marco a paper to introduce the definition of the model Sensor Variable Font to the design community. The conference […]
Project report book
I share some images of the project report:
Technical specifications
At the present time I only know two technologies able to interact with sensors and variable font axes (please write me if you some else). Sure there are more to come, but in the mean time… One is through the font-variation-settings CSS propriety and the another one is through the fontVariations Drawbot (Python) propriety. To […]
Advanced model cases
The model has been created with a broad level of abstraction and sufficient flexibility to allow it to be applied in multiple interactive projects. The options are infinite and it is up to the designers to apply an adequate logic to their purposes. On the following figures I show more variations of the model using […]
